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Re: What does 'subscribe digest' mean?

Originally Posted by greissue

I always see it on some web pages, but I cannot get it precise meaning.
Thank you very much!

I've not seen this on any web page I've visited, but its meaning is clear (and I wish I had seen it). When you subscribe to a mailing list (on the internet - Electronic mailing list - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), all mails sent to that group are sent to you too. This is OK when there are only a few posts every day, but some groups generate 100s (or even 1000s) - which can bring your mail server grinding to a halt. So after you subscribe, you need to send mail to the list owners (or to some automated agent like Majordomo), saying you want the digest (a single e-mail once a day, containing all the posts to a particular newsgroup).

The phrase you've seen lets you subscribe and - automatically - request the digest.